Bud Brewster
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 Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 7:37 pm Post subject: Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970) |
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This movie is a dud, but the poster is a true work of art! You should be aware that this film was also released as:
"Creatures of the Prehistoric Planet"
"Horror Creatures of the Prehistoric Planet"
"Space Mission of the Lost Planet"
"Vampire Men of the Lost Planet"
Al Adamson again proves that anything Edward D. Wood, Jr. could do badly by accident, Adamson could do worse on purpose. As with several other Adamson projects, this one started as a Filipino feature, from which Adamson clipped footage and then shot new footage to be added.
John Carradine plays a scientist who traces a group of vampire killers on Earth to a previously unknown planet, where he and his crew have to fight vampire cavemen, snakemen, and other badly done makeup jobs from the cribbed Filipino footage.
The original film was in black-and-white, but the new scenes were filmed in color.
Was this a problem for Adamson? Of course not! Al just tinted the black-and-white scenes and then had his astronaut characters explain that the tint was a side effect of the planet's radiation (what else?).
Also starring Vicki Volante and Robert Dix. A voice-over narration by Theodore Gottlieb tries in vain to bring it all together. When the film flopped at the box office, Adamson tried his patented retitle-and-release method — which never works. But it did give the public four more chances to unwittingly see his rotten movie.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)
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